Critics silenced ahead of China's move to end Xi term limits

Beijing • The day China’s ruling Communist Party unveiled a proposal to allow President Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely as Mao Zedong did a generation ago, Ma Bo was so shaken he couldn’t sleep.So Ma, a renowned writer, wrote a social media post urging the party to remember the history of unchecked one-man rule that ended in catastrophe.“History is regressing badly,” Ma thundered in his post. “As a Chinese of conscience, I cannot stay silent!”Censors sile